The Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey is a unique source of comparable economy-level data on how banks are regulated and supervised around the world. In the early 2000s, the World Bank created a global database of bank...

The World Bank's Enabling the Business of Agriculture project assesses laws and regulations in agriculture in 101 countries. The data set identifies actionable reforms to remove obstacles for farmers seeking to grow their...

Will all children be able to read by 2030? The ability to read with comprehension is a foundational skill that every education system around the world strives to impart by late in primary school—generally by age 10. Moreover,...

Biodiversity indicator values (scores) for grid cells at 1-kilometer resolution, derived from over 25,000 range maps of species provided by IUCN and Birdlife International. The raw data from the range maps are unpublished and...

The Global Food Safety Partnership's (GFSP) Food Safety in Africa provides access to descriptive information on 518 food safety investments in sub-Saharan Africa between 2010 and early 2017. It may be used to identify and cross...

The ad valorem equivalent (AVE) of non-tariff measures (NTMs) is the uniform tariff that will result in the same trade impacts on the import of a product due to the presence of the NTMs. In other words, the AVEs represent the...

Governments of developing countries typically spend between 20 and 30 percent of gross domestic product. Hence, small changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a major impact on aggregate productivity growth and...

These raster files show the land cover classification around Harare in 2006 and 2010. The classification results were based on Spot 5 imagery. Land cover classes in the attribute table are as follows:
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